Shari Ireton, a spokesperson for the Snohomish County Sheriff's Department, initially said the semi-trailer was parked legally alongside the road. The area where the crash occurred is a stretch of road where drivers regularly park their trucks and tractor-trailers and either leave them unattended or sleep in them. Later in the day, she said, "However, the trailer was not parked in the correct direction, as the front of the trailer was facing the direction by oncoming traffic. This is a civil parking infraction."

The three people killed after their SUV slid under a parked semi early Wednesday morning were all high school students in the Everett School District, according to reports. All three who died attended Henry M. Jackson High School in Everett. A fourth person, a 15-year-old girl, survived the crash and is a student at Cascade High School in Everett.

On Friday, the six-month anniversary of the July 26 crash, the Sheriff’s Office released detectives’ findings, detailing the factors that contributed to the deaths of the three teenagers who were students at Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek.

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This trailer was parked facing the wrong direction. Had this trailer been parked with the trailer doors facing south the car would not have had the top sheared off and we would have 4 injured people rather than 3 dead as I am guessing there was extreme head trama or decapitation.